MB. E. B. SHAKPE ON THE BIRDS OF KEW GUINEA. 685 



Very abundant and destructive, boring long galleries in wood, 

 witb apparent indifference whether the wood be dead or living. 

 {T.B.) 



,_- Apis mellipica, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 955. 

 Hab. Sandwich Islands, &c. &c. 



Contributions to the Ornithology of New Gruinea. By E. 

 Bowdlee Shaepe, E.L.S., F.Z.S. &c.— Part VI. On Collec- 

 tions made by the Hev. W. Gr. Lawes in South-eastern New 

 Gruinea. 



[Read April 17, 1879.] 



The collections which have been made in the neighbourhood of 

 Port Moresby during the last few years seem to have tolerably 

 well exhausted the ornithology of that part of New Gruinea, and 

 each consignment which reaches England is more or less a repe- 

 tition of those which have gone before. The Bev. Mr. Lawes, 

 however, has made a small collection of birds ; and as he has , 

 visited one or two places to the eastward of Port Moresby, I have 

 thought it advisable to give a list of his specimens, as the range 

 of the birds in an easterly direction is one of considerable interest • 

 to the student of the avifauna of South-eastern New Gruinea. 



"Walter Bay, Mr. Lawes informs me, is situated a few miles to 

 the east of Port Moresby ; but Hood Bay is about sixty miles 

 east of the last-mentioned place. I have referred to my former 

 paper on Mr. Stone's collection (Jouru. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 486). 

 The "Laroki" river there mentioned is the same as the Laloke 

 river of the present paper, as Mr. Lawes tells me the latter is the 

 more correct pronunciation. 



1. Haliastue gieeeneea (v.); Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc, xiii. 

 p. 490. Walter Bay. 



2. MiCEOGLOSSuM ATEEEiMUM (Qm.)', SJicrqje, t. c. p. 491. 

 Hood Bay. 



3. GrEOEEEOTitJs aeuensis ((?my); /S'/w5;pe, if. c. p.491. Laloke 

 Eiver. 



4. Cyclopsitta sUAYissiMA, Schter ; Sharpe, f, c. p. 491. 

 Laloke Hiver. 



